Arthur Machen: Weaver of Fantasy

by William F. Gekle

Dazzling Light, The, one of the legends of the war written for the London EVENING NEWS, also in the 1915 edition of THE BOWMEN.

Double Return, A, one of the earliest tales, appeared first in the ST. JAMES GAZETTE, London, 1890; included in THE COSY ROOM, Rich & Cowan, 1936.

Drake’s Drum, one of the legends of the War, written in 1919, first appeared in THE OUTLOOK, London, 1919. Included in Starrett’s THE SHINING PYRAMID, Chicago, 1923 and THE COSY ROOM, Rich & Cowan, London, 1936.

Exalted Omega, The, published in Hutchinson’s 1936 collection, CHILDREN OF THE POOL, also included in August Derleth’s anthology, WHO KNOCKS, Farrar & Rhinehart, New York, 1947.

Fragment of Life, A, first called RESURRECTIO MORTUORUM and published in a London newspaper in the 1890’s. Re-written and published in HORLICK’S MAGAZINE in 1904; included in THE HOUSE OF SOULS, Grant Richards, London, 1906, and in THE HOUSE OF SOULS by Knopf, New York, 1922. F. B. Millett, CONTEMPORARY BRITISH LITERATURE, (N.Y. 1935) mentions this title with date 1928.

Garden of Avallaunius, The, original title of THE HILL OF DREAMS. First published under this title in HORLICK’S MAGAZINE, London, 1904, issued by Grant Richards in 1907. May have appeared in a French publication sometime between 1902 and 1907.

Gift of Tongues, The, a recent title (1927) included in STRANGE ASSEMBLY, edited by Gawsworth, London, 1932. Rich & Cowan’s THE COSY ROOM, London, 1936.

Great God Pan, The, possibly the most famous of the tales, first published in WHIRLWIND, London, 1890. Appeared in John Lane’s KEYSTONE SERIES as Volume V, London, 1894. A second edition in 1895, translated into the French in 1901. Included in THE HOUSE OF SOULS, Richards, 1906 and reprinted by Richards in 1910. Published by Simpkin, Marshall of London in 1916. Included in THE HOUSE OF SOULS, Knopf, 1922. Included in the CAERLEON EDITION, Secker, 1923. Included in The New Adelphi Library, Vol. 24, Secker; also appears in GREAT TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL, Random House, 1941 and TALES, Knopf, 1948. Roberts Brothers of Boston also published it in 1894.

Great Return, The, written in 1915 and first appeared as a serial in the London EVENING NEWS. Published by The Faith Press, London, 1915. Included in the CAERLEON EDITION, Secker, 1923. Also in TALES, Knopf, 1948.